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SAVOIR PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Build the knowledge behind demonstrated competency.

SAVOIR training develops the knowledge, analysis, and professional judgment used in healthcare payer configuration. Choose the training path aligned with the level of competency you are preparing to demonstrate.

THE SAVOIR MODEL

Training prepares. Certification verifies.

SAVOIR training and SAVOIR credentials serve two distinct purposes. Training provides structured education designed to develop payer configuration knowledge and judgment. Certification provides independently verifiable evidence that the credential standard has been demonstrated.

TRAINING

Develop knowledge, strengthen configuration analysis, and prepare for the corresponding credential assessment.

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CERTIFICATION

Demonstrate competency against an established SAVOIR credential standard and earn an independently verifiable professional credential.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

The SAVOIR Payer Configuration Competency Framework

SAVOIR training is structured around progressive levels of payer configuration knowledge and professional development. Each training path develops a defined body of knowledge aligned with the corresponding SAVOIR credential. Professional training establishes core payer configuration knowledge, Advanced training develops complex analytical judgment, and Leadership training develops the knowledge required to govern and lead the configuration function.

S-CFG™ PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Foundation: Professional Payer Configuration Competency

Payer Configuration Foundations

Understand healthcare payer operations, core administration concepts, configuration architecture, plan structures, rules, and system relationships.

Benefits & Plan Configuration

Learn how benefit requirements translate into configuration, including coverage, exclusions, limitations, member cost share, accumulators, and maximums.

Reimbursement & Contract Configuration

Understand reimbursement concepts and how contractual requirements are interpreted and translated into payer configuration.

Claims & Operational Impact

Understand how configuration decisions affect claims adjudication, benefits, provider reimbursement, member experience, and downstream payer operations.

Requirements & Configuration Analysis

Learn to interpret business requirements, identify configuration dependencies, evaluate expected outcomes, and translate business intent into defensible configuration decisions.

Testing, QA & Change Control

Develop test scenarios, validate configuration outcomes, identify defects, document results, and apply disciplined configuration change and production controls.

S-CFG-A™ ADVANCED TRAINING

Advanced: Complex Configuration Analysis & Judgment

Advanced Configuration Relationships

Analyze complex configuration structures, dependencies, interactions, and downstream effects across payer operations.

Complex Benefit & Reimbursement Analysis

Work through advanced benefit, reimbursement, contract, and adjudication scenarios requiring deeper technical interpretation.

Contract Interpretation & Configuration Judgment

Evaluate complex or ambiguous requirements and determine defensible configuration approaches using structured analytical judgment.

Root-Cause & Claims Impact Analysis

Investigate configuration defects, trace unexpected outcomes, identify root causes, and assess claims and operational impact.

Advanced Testing & Validation Strategy

Design sophisticated test scenarios that evaluate configuration behavior, dependencies, edge cases, and downstream consequences.

Configuration Risk & Problem Solving

Evaluate competing requirements, production risks, remediation options, and complex configuration decisions where the correct solution may not be immediately apparent.

S-CFG-L™ LEADERSHIP TRAINING

Leadership: Configuration Governance & Operational Leadership

Configuration Governance

Establish configuration standards, controls, accountability, decision frameworks, and governance structures.

Configuration Operating Models

Design effective intake, prioritization, workflow, ownership, segregation-of-duties, and change-management models for configuration operations.

Quality, Validation & Release Governance

Establish QA expectations, testing standards, approval controls, production-release governance, traceability, and audit readiness.

Risk, Performance & Operational Management

Manage configuration risk, backlogs, workload, operational metrics, escalations, defects, and configuration performance.

Team, Vendor & Cross-Functional Leadership

Lead configuration teams and work effectively across business stakeholders, technology partners, vendors, consultants, and BPO relationships.

Strategic Configuration Leadership

Communicate configuration risk to leadership, guide major implementations and operational change, establish competency expectations, and align configuration strategy with organizational objectives.

FROM LEARNING TO CREDENTIAL

A Clear Path to Demonstrated Competency

SELECT YOUR PATH

Choose the training program aligned with your professional competency level.

SELECT YOUR PATH

Choose the training program aligned with your professional competency level.

COMPLETE TRAINING

Work through structured payer configuration education and applied learning.

COMPLETE TRAINING

Work through structured payer configuration education and applied learning.

COMPLETE THE ASSESSMENT

Demonstrate competency through the corresponding SAVOIR credential assessment.

COMPLETE THE ASSESSMENT

Demonstrate competency through the corresponding SAVOIR credential assessment.

EARN YOUR CREDENTIAL

Successful candidates receive an independently verifiable SAVOIR credential.

EARN YOUR CREDENTIAL

Successful candidates receive an independently verifiable SAVOIR credential.

PROFESSIONAL VALUE

Develop the knowledge. Demonstrate the competency.

SAVOIR brings professional education and independent credentialing together while preserving the distinction between learning and demonstrated competency. Build your configuration knowledge, complete the assessment, and earn evidence of the competency you have demonstrated.